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ought to have some flexibility. we have not taken that as a direction simply because our focus here is not just a reduction of the vehicles we use but also for the environment. that is where the conversation has come city-wide. it is virtually the same for us. >> supervisor avalos? supervisor avalos: i wonder if you could do me a favor. for the police department in the coming year, their plans to purchase vehicles. how would you see them having to adjust their plans around purchasing vehicles? how would this change things in subsequent years? >> certainly, we would follow up with neg...

in the traditional standards. >> --supervisor chu: we havcane take the amendment as a whole? without objection. supervisor dufty: item move forward to the full board with recommendations. supervisor chu: can we do that without objection? ok. without objection. thank you. can you call the last item, item 9? i also want to announce that supervisor david chiu is with us for this item. >> item 9. hearing on the san francisco municipal transportation agency's transition to the clipper card on the following topics: 1) implementation of the clipper card; 2) 25-cent surcharge for single-use ...

seeing none, public comment is closed. one final note, we ask different bodies, a different government departments to weigh in on decisions. in this situation, if the department has the authorization to do so, to go ahead and do so with the purchasers office. at and in between staff before any approved process is -- before anything is approved, you want to make sure that you are meeting in line with the required block. are the vehicles going to be these types of emissions? should it be replaced at all? tell me how your department is going to handle that and not create what we would c...

sufficient numbers to reduce or replace with less emissions vehicles. in discussing in particular with departments like the department of building inspection, there needs to go up and down based upon the economy. certainly at the present time, for example, we can find better use of vehicles because they are not used as often. when the economy turns, there will be a higher use for those vehicles because it calls for a lot more inspections. i believe the department has asked for some flexibility for that reason and also for the reason that they are the balding there err mordancy role. ...

thanks for joining us. i'm kristen sze. >> i'm eric thomas. topping our news this half hour, pg&e is investigating the possibility that microbes inside a natural gas pipe might have caused the deadly san bruno explosion two weeks ago, this unlikely but has happened before. jenelle is live in san bruno to tell us more. >> yes, it has, ten years ago in the new mexico desert that pipeline ruptured killing 12 including three young children. investigators found pitting in the pipeline. the corroded area spread across 21 feet of the pipe and some areas 72% of the pipe wall had been eaten a...